DR READINESS SCORE
A one-page, vendor-agnostic rubric to assess your disaster recovery posture in minutes.
SCORING (0–5)
0 = NOT PRESENT
1 = AD HOC
2 = BASIC
3 = DEFINED
4 = TESTED
5 = PROVEN / AUTOMATED
RTO/RPO OBJECTIVES
Documented per app; business-approved; mapped to infra & runbooks.
Comments:
ARCHITECTURE RESILIENCE
Multi-AZ/region; DNS/failover patterns; no single points of failure.
Comments:
DATA PROTECTION
Backups + immutability (3-2-1-1-0); restore tested; retention tiers.
Comments:
RUNBOOKS & AUTOMATION
Step-by-step with owners; IaC/scripts; stored centrally.
Comments:
DR TESTING
Tabletop + live failover; evidence captured; action items closed.
Comments:
OBSERVABILITY
Uptime/SLOs; synthetic checks; DR-specific alerts & dashboards.
Comments:
IDENTITY & ACCESS
Break-glass; least privilege; secrets vaulted; audit logs.
Comments:
NETWORK & CONNECTIVITY
Redundant links; private interconnects; tested DNS/BGP changes.
Comments:
THIRD PARTIES & SAAS
SLAs reviewed; failover documented; contact trees current.
Comments:
COMMS & GOVERNANCE
Crisis comms; roles/RACI; postmortems; exec reporting.
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READINESS BANDS
0–19 HIGH RISK · 20–29 DEVELOPING · 30–39 DEFINED · 40–45 RESILIENT · 46–50 ENTERPRISE-GRADE
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